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    new snake owner says hello

    greetings to everyone. just got a garter from a friend and was doing some research and found this forum. imm sure it will be a great help!!!

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    Re: new snake owner says hello

    You are welcome in this forum! ;-D

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    Re: new snake owner says hello

    Hello and welcome to the forum!!! What kind of garter did you get?? Hope we can be of any help to ya!!!

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    not sure yet, trying to find out it came from found it in idaho it has red checker sort of.

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    Re: new snake owner says hello

    Welcome to the forum!! If the garter you got was from Idaho and has red on it, it's a valley garter, thamnophis sirtalis fitchi. I grew up in Idaho, small town of Cascadem 75 miles north of Boise. I used to catch them up there. I currently have a large female valley garter....32 inches long!!

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    Re: new snake owner says hello

    i will post some pics early next week

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    Re: new snake owner says hello

    this one is about 24 inches

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    Re: new snake owner says hello

    that's the average size I used to find, males tend to be smaller. I had a friend out south of Boise that was almost 4 ft long! He sent it to Scott Felzer, but it passed away... do you know where in Idaho it was found??

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    Re: new snake owner says hello

    around the post falls/coeur d'alene area

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    Pretty country up there!!! Valley garters are primarily amphibian eaters, mainly frogs. They normally take fish ok too. My female takes frozen/thawed fish and pinkie rats.

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